by partnering with largest African service providers and small savings groups for assessing entrepreneur's trustworthiness
on the Aion Sigma platform, which turns phones into collateral for our local partners
from our local partner in Africa on fair and flexible terms
with time as the entrepreneur pays for the lease and you regain the money you lent to Aion Sigma
Smartphones with internet connection is what every one of us needs for successful and essential civic & cultural participation in the digital world.
The challenge we set on is to narrow the gap. 75% of African population is unable to afford a smartphone. We have already helped over 10,000 entrepreneurs across Zambia, Nigeria and Kenya.
On the 4th of March Aion Sigma hosted Empower Africa with Impact Business stage talks as a part of the Helsinki Nordic Impact Week. Susanne Hannestad, the CEO of Fintech Mundi, walks-and-talks financial inclusion and is also mentoring us and the other few lucky teams at MasterCard Lighthouse MASSIV...
The reflection blog is based on the original Medium column ‘Pivot the world’ of Jari Ala Ruona, co-entrepreneur at Aion Sigma, a start-up of financial and digital inclusion. Heading towards a global pandemic and difficult time of governance, the global economy would face a decade of stagnation. Democratic economies...